51st Street

51st Street is a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) long one-way street traveling east to west across
The route officially begins at Beekman Place which is on a hill overlooking FDR Drive. 51st continues for a few feet east of the intersection but the street sign refers to it as Peter Detmold Park (a reference to the dog park at the bottom of the hill) which has a pedestrian walk way over the FDR to the East River Yemen Mission to the United Nations